Tag: Transportation

The summer tourist season is about to arrive in Alaska, and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration is reminding passengers that a popular Eskimo-style, half-moon-shaped knife isn't allowed in carry-on bags. (Thinkstock Image)

National Security

TSA reminds Alaska tourists: No ulus on flights

Associated Press · May 19, 2014 4:00 am

A car drives by a pothole in Detroit. The state House's vote to slowly raise gasoline taxes over time if prices increase has senators asking: Is it enough to fix Michigan's deteriorating roads? Talks are underway on whether lawmakers can capitalize on voter anger over shoddy roads and commit to a much higher tax increase, phased in over a handful of years. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Michigan Senate eyes bigger gasoline tax increase

David Eggert · May 19, 2014 4:00 am

People watch a live television program showing South Korean President Park Geun-hye's speech to the nation regarding the sunken ferry Sewol at the Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 19, 2014. South Korea's president said Monday she will push to disband the coast guard in the wake of last month's ferry disaster that left more than 300 people dead or missing, calling its rescue operations after the disaster a failure. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

S. Korea’s president pushes for end of coast guard

HyungJin Kim · May 19, 2014 3:55 am

South Korea’s president says she will push to disband coast guard in wake of ferry disaster

South Korea’s president says she will push to disband coast guard in wake of ferry disaster

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2014 12:27 am

3 taken to hospital after Md. crash involving bus

3 taken to hospital after Md. crash involving bus

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2014 11:03 pm

Burning bread crumbs send plane back to Boston

Burning bread crumbs send plane back to Boston

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2014 5:34 pm

Train derailment fuels sleep apnea screening talks

Jim Fitzgerald · May 18, 2014 5:22 pm

A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus hangs over the Massachusetts Turnpike after crashing on Centre Street in Newton, Mass., Sunday, May 18, 2014. Seven passengers and the bus driver were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, MBTA spokeswoman Kelly Smith. Three other passengers declined medical treatment. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Matt Stone)

Bus hangs over Massachusetts Pike after crash

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2014 5:21 pm

DC metro gas prices down a penny from last week

DC metro gas prices down a penny from last week

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2014 4:02 pm

Man, 90, dead after single car crash on I-495

Man, 90, dead after single car crash on I-495

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2014 3:49 pm

A Bangladeshi man mourns for his missing brother, as rescuers continue to search the site of a ferry that sank, on the banks of the River Meghna in Munshiganj district, in Bangladesh, Friday, May 16, 2014. Rescuers have recovered at least 26 bodies after a ferry capsized during a storm in a river in central Bangladesh, officials said Friday. Police estimated at least 100 people were still missing, but there was no clear picture about exactly how many people were on board because the ferry operators did not maintain a passenger list, said a local administrator, Saiful Hasan. (AP Photo/Suvra Kanti Das)

40 dead as Bangladesh ferry search called off

Washington Examiner · May 17, 2014 4:12 am

FILE - In this May 24, 2013 file photo, traffic begins to thicken as motorists getting an early jump to Memorial Day destinations in Indiana and Michigan travel an interstate freeway through Chicago. Auto club AAA on Friday, May 16, 2014 said it expects a total of 36.1 million people to travel 50 miles or more this Memorial Day Weekend. If that estimate holds true, it would be the largest amount of people traveling during the holiday weekend since 2005. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

AAA: Americans ready to travel after rough winter

Joseph Pisani · May 16, 2014 2:27 pm